March 12th, 2019
Kaiser suicide victim’s parents profiled in CALmatters
After struggling for more than a year to get mental health care from Kaiser Permanente, Elizabeth Brown took her life at the age of 19. Jocelyn Wiener spoke with Elizabeth’s parents for her March 10 article in CALmatters: For families across California, a desperate struggle to get mental health care. Photo by Penni Gladstone for CALmatters
March 1st, 2019
Caregivers organize Town Hall on state of health care in Humboldt County
Over the past year, Providence St Joseph Health’s Redwood Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital Eureka have reported a combined $58 million annual profit, while laying off more than two-dozen caregivers. With Providence controlling a near health care monopoly in Humboldt County, our members, along with the California Nurses Association, held a Feb. 25 Town […]
March 1st, 2019
Providence Tarzana workers fight back against subcontracting
Less than a year after settling a new contract, Providence Tarzana workers are pressuring management to stop violating a provision that prohibits subcontracting out work to outside contractors. First, they filed a formal grievance demanding that management stop subcontracting out Biomed Department work to the firm enBio. Then, a delegation of workers met with the […]
March 1st, 2019
Alert stewards help Fountain Valley workers win better wages
Last May, shop stewards at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital discovered that dozens “nursing assistants” were being required to submit a “certification” to prove that they were actually “certified nursing assistants”, which in their contract requires a higher rate of pay. We filed a grievance on behalf of the nursing assistants, and, after a 10-hour mediation […]
March 1st, 2019
NUHW Pulse – February 2019
Welcome to the February 2019 edition of our union’s e-newsletter. In recent weeks, NUHW members won raises for Certified Nursing Assistants at Fountain Valley Regional Hospital, convened a Town Hall on the state of health care in Humboldt County, fought back against contractually-prohibited subcontracting at Providence Tarzana Medical Center and confronted a top Kaiser Permanente […]